He and his colleagues designed a test where 32 adults with an average age of 75 listened to a story. Afterward, the seniors were asked to recite details, and then asked again 20 minutes later and a week later.

None of the adults had memory problems severe enough for a clinical diagnosis, they said, but their Emotional Logical Memory Test may show subtle changes in emotional memory abilities. This could wind up giving providers another tool in detection of Alzheimer's disease susceptibility.

Fecal transplants should be considered for patients with recurrent cases of Clostridium difficile whose symptoms cannot be addressed by antibiotics, the Infectious Diseases Society of America said in new guidelines published Thursday.

Lawmakers took a long-standing industry complaint to the Department of Health and Human Services this week, telling Secretary Alex Azar that Medicare and Medicaid favor opioid prescription over non-addictive alternatives for treating chronic pain.